Tunning

surname · Latin script

Meaning: present participle and gerund of tun

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/tʌnɪŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Tunning is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DKDenmark1 in 734K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 2.6M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

126 people, 2010

Sources
9 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 734K (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

present participle and gerund of tun

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tunning counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Tunning is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1261 in 2.6M148Tunning9
DK Denmark81 in 734K8——
BR Brazil———Tunning2
CL Chile———Tunning2
ES Spain———Tunning3

126 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Tunning is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Spanish, misspelling of tuning

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Tunning,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Tunning
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020148#122,574
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000147#111,119
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010126#133,863
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—8#48,418
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Tunning mean, and where does it come from?
present participle and gerund of tun Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Tunning?
A machine transcription gives /tʌnɪŋ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Tunning have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 126 people named Tunning, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tunning.
Where is Tunning most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tunning is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 734 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Tunning?
In the United States, the national register counted 126 people named Tunning in 2010, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tunning”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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